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May 1, 2012

Some points to consider to leverage the benefits of asp.net MVC and jquery more

This article explains some real time issues that one may face while working with asp.net MVC and jquery. And accordingly the corresponding resolutions. These points if taken into consideration then may help a new developer leverage the benefits of asp.net MVC and jquery more.

In case any suggestions are there please let me know, I will more than happy to include them.

For the full article please refer to this.

May 30, 2011

ASP.NET to Silverlight Migration

This paper on guidance on ASP.NET to Silverlight migration, that I was working on along with a colleague has finally gone live on Technology Showcase at Infosys.com Resource center. We have had multiple queries on guidance on how to migrate an ASP.NET application to Silverlight? So we captured all of the relevant points in this paper.

The paper can act as a checklist of sorts for various ASP.NET features and how to migrate them to Silverlight. You can download a copy of it from here. Do read it and share any comments you may have on it, here.

May 20, 2011

ASP.NET 4 Social Networking

Our book ASP.NET 4 Social Networking, that I wrote along with my colleague Sudhanshu Hate went live on PACKT Publishing site few weeks back. It was an interesting year long experience writing my first book. Am very grateful to Sudhanshu to have agreed to co-author this book with me.

This book is currently available for online purchase from PACKT website or from Amazon.com. Do share your comments on the book here or on Amazon.

March 30, 2011

New ways to surface data from SharePoint 2010

SharePoint 2010 is business collaboration platform for the enterprise and internet. The current version is the 4th generation product from Microsoft stable. SharePoint adoption has grown heavily in the last 2-3 years starting with MOSS 2007 but it is increasing with SharePoint 2010.  Customers are adopting SharePoint as an application development platform.  Different types of data is being stored and managed within SharePoint. Even the amount of content is getting bigger and bigger. Until now, it was little bit challenging to surface the data stored in SharePoint within the applications that are not hosted on the same server as SharePoint. The only way that was possible was to use built-in web services or develop custom web services. There have been many new enhancements in this version of the product. As I come from development background, I really like some of the enhancements that help improve developer's productivity especially the new ways to surface the data from SharePoint within applications. 

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August 17, 2010

Search Engine Optimization - Why is it important and some of the ways to improve it

In the Web 2.0 world, companies are developing rich sites / portals to promote their services and products that intend to provide better customer experience. The objective is to increase the stickiness, provide self service capabilities, market the products to the customers and increase the revenue. Discoverability is the first step in the process to meet the above objective. Any large Brand site or e-commerce site needs to make sure that customers are able to find their sites first before the products and services can be targeted.

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June 15, 2010

Website URL rewrite

Recently while talking to one of our .net architect we were  discussing  out of the box feature in .NET to enable URL rewrite, we checked the available options in .NET framework  to help  URL rewrite, and found that in IIS 7 there is pre built URL rewrite module which is easily configurable not only to do the URL re-direction but also can help in building user friendly URLs for SEOs, health check and monitoring to increase the site availability. It can help in creating powerful customized rules to map request URLs to friendly URLs. See more details at :

http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/460/using-the-url-rewrite-module/

 

June 4, 2010

Web Site Innovation : Northwestern Mutual Wins 2010 Innovator Award

Northwestern Mutual has won the 2010 Innovation award from Windows Financial Services Magzine. Infosys is a Strategic Service provider for Northwestern Mutual. Infosys helped Northwestern Mutual in developing the new Website on Sharepoint.

Please check out the details  at:

http://www.windowsfs.com/uncategorized/northwestern-mutual-wins-2010-innovator-award

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December 18, 2009

Deploying ASP.NET MVC applications on IIS 6

Couple of days back I was trying to deploy an ASP.NET MVC application on IIS 6 and met with some issues. When I entered an extension-less url like http://localhost/MyMVCApp/Home/Index, I got a resource not found error. When I did some read up on the same, I found that we have to tweak the application configuration on IIS to get the application running and to use extension-less URLs. Phil Haack's article on the same provides us a lot of details on how to get ASP.NET MVC apps up and running on IIS 6.

October 14, 2009

ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2 Released

On October 1st Microsoft released ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (and ASP.NET 3.5 SP1), which builds on top of the work they did in Preview 1 released two and a half months ago.

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ASP.NET MVC – Understanding the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern

ASP.NET MVC is something that Microsoft started talking about approximately 2 years ago! In October 2007, Scott Guthrie presented the first preview of the ASP.NET MVC framework at PDC. Before ASP.NET MVC came into the picture, the .NET platform did not provide the building blocks to develop a web application which uses the Model-View-Controller architecture. This was something that the .NET developer community had been asking the ASP.NET support team for, since a very long time. Ever since the first preview of the framework was released, the interest in this framework has been growing, and a vast amount of sample applications, components, and so on have been released on the Internet by enthusiast bloggers and Microsoft employees.

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March 11, 2009

ASP.NET MVC eBook Tutorial released

Before actual ship of ASP.Net MVC framework Scott Guthrie has provided link to ASP.net MVC eBook tutorial. Find details here.

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August 22, 2008

Reflector needs registration

There will be probably very few out there who haven't heard about Reflector and don't use it. Earlier today I noticed this blog that mentioned Red gate acquiring Reflector. I proceed to the mentioned site. I noticed that the latest version if 5.1.3 and I had 5.1.1. so I clicked the "Download your free copy now!" button.

Interestingly the tool may still be free, but laying your hands on it isn't that easy anymore. You are now required to register to download. This is a bit of a damper. I will eventually register and download the latest, but having to register to get the freely available tool earlier !! I don't like it.

August 4, 2008

Virtual Earth ASP.NET control

Check our the new set of Windows Live Tools available that work with Visual Studio 2008. These also include the ASP.NET Virtual Earth Control and you can find detailed video introductions here.

Since I now work more closely with Silverlight, I look forward to the easier integration of Virtual earth with Silverlight and easy usage.

July 8, 2008

ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight - Which way would you go?

Want to develop a web application using Microsoft Technologies? The choice today will revolve around the mature ASP.NET, the upcoming ASP.NET AJAX or Silverlight (Beta 2 currently available). Needless to say that all have their benefits and specific features that make them attractive options to use.

Choice will also depend very much on if the application is internet or intranet facing, so let's talk about internet facing application. Both ASP.NET and ASP.NET AJAX are pretty much server side applications in that most of their logic resides on server side. 

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April 3, 2008

ASP.NET AJAX Perils

ASP.NET AJAX is come a long way since its inception a few years back and my personal take it is that it in a hype cycle right now, where everyone is trying to jump on-board and create AJAX based applications. Needless to say that it has its own benefits, but there definite downsides to it as well. You can read a set of 10 important aspects around AJAX here.

It is known that though it gives a flicker free UX, the under-the-hood story tells a different tale. Having read about it, some days back, we did a small experiment to really see the kind of differences one can get with different approaches and you can read about our findings in this report (Download file). The scenario we took is very simplistic, but the results are still eye-opening.

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